For The Blind
Living With Blind Dogs: A Resource Book and Training Guide for the Owners of Blind and Low-Vision Dogs, Second Edition
Caroline D. Levin (Paperback) Lantern Publications 2004-02
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I at a gathering early this week for support for the blind when I noticed people from PETA handing out flyers that called for people to stop abusing dogs for their "enslavement" by people.
Now I am just outraged that a animal rights group would be that selfish as to deny the blind one their most useful companion and tool for navigating around.
But, does PETA have a point about enslavement of animals for the blind to use? Or are they just being extreme liberals?
Because they are nucking futs. It's not a Organization I would ever support.
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How about a guide Pig? I hear they are very intellegent, or too bad dolphins need water, they are super intellegent as well!!
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Do you think a full-sized horse would be better/worse/equal to miniature horses as guide animals for the blind (for those who live in a rural area and make enough money to support a full-sized horse)?
The last thing I would ever do is have an 1100lb flight animal act as a guide for a blind person. No matter how well trained, that's a recipe for nothing less than catastrophe.
Like this, but with/without a wheelchair & BLIND person attached.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03YcT74h5 Mg
::shudder::
Also, if you happen to know more about the muslim view on dogs in general, that would be interesting. It just seems like there must be something important about dogs to forbid the blind that service. Or is it the service itself maybe? Is it more to do with suffering as God has prescribed than with the type of animal? I'll stop guessing - you tell me.
It is partly a case of dogma becoming too extreme. Islam forbids the eating of pigs and any carnivore including dogs, cats, and birds of prey. In addition dogs are considered unclean because they are scavengers.
Dogs became listed as ritually unclean, and then later totally forbidden as pets. Some sects of Islam consider them OK for work animals but that forming attachments is forbidden. Many Muslims that have immigrated to the US to escape Sharia law now keep dogs and see such attitudes as being way too extreme.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Sec urity/?id=1.0.1892967009
ADD: On the actual writings:
http://www.answering-islam.org/Silas/dog s.htm
http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/18 5/
God, the Creator of human beings and animals, has made animals subservient to us. We depend on animals for the food we eat and the milk we drink. We bring animals into our homes for love and companionship. We survive critical illness and live longer because of biomedical research on animals. We visit to zoos and aquariums to gain an appreciation for the spectacular diversity of life on earth. We benefit from specially trained dogs that detect drugs, guide the blind, and assist the disabled. God says in the Quran:
“And the cattle, He has created them for you. You have in them warm clothing and (other) advantages, and of them you eat. And therein is beauty for you, when you drive them back (home) and when you send them out (to pasture). And they carry your heavy loads to regions which you could not reach but with distress to yourselves. Surely your Lord is Compassionate, Merciful. And (He made) horses and mules and asses that you might ride upon them and as an ornament. And He creates what you know not.” (Quran 16:5-8)
The mercy of Islam extends beyond human beings to all living creations of God. Islam prohibits cruelty to animals. Fourteen hundred years ago, long before the modern animal rights movement began with the publication of Peter Singer’s book, “Animal Liberation,” in 1975, Islam required kindness to animals and cruelty to them a sufficient reason for a person to be thrown into the Fire!
you failed to mention that in the Quran it mentions that an Animal must be blessed before slaughter.. And you must consume all of the meat of the animal in which is killed for food...To harm an Animal for no reason other than satisfaction it against Allah...The Holy Bible Say's we must eat only animals of hoofed feet..We eat chicken though..And Islams must not consume Pork for it the bottom dweller and can have more than one father to its littler of piglets.... I would suggest you keep reading ither your Suras or your Holy Bible..It all explains it in time...
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